Door-check.



No. 807,852. PATENTED DEC. 19, 1905 C. McGINNIS. DOOR CHECK.

APPLICATION FILED APR.25,1905.

WITNESSES: INVENTOI? d/QA U/zazZeJ .1? Giant's ATTORNEYS JHARLES'WOGINNIS, OF EL PASO, TEXAS.

DOOR-CHECK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 19, 1905.

Application filed April 25,1905. Serial No. 257,296.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES MoGINNrs, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of El Paso, in the county of El Paso and State of Texas,have invented a new and Improved Door-Check, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in checks for swinging doors, theobject being to provide a device of this character that will be simpleand inexpensive in construction, that may be easily applied to a door,and by means of which the door may be held at any desired opening orpermitted to slowly close without slamming.

I will describe a door-check embodying my invention and then point outthe novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming-a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a front view of a door-check embodying my invention andshowing the same as attached to a door. Fig. 2 shows the check in topplan. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a locking-rack employed. Fig. 4: is abottom plan of a cushion employed, and Fig. 5 is an elevation of thedevice partly in section.

It may be here stated that the device is to be attached to the lowerportion of a door near the locking edge and on the side in the directionof which the door swings for opening.

The device comprises a single length of spring-wire having an uppermember 1 and a lower member 2. These members are spaced apart, and theirconnection is made in the form of a coil 3, which engages around a stud4:, so as to have slight rotary motion thereon. This stud is providedwith outwardly-extended wings 5, provided with perforations throughwhich screws pass to secure the lug to a door.

To raise the fastener to upper or normal position, as will behereinafter described, I employ a spring 6, having two members, betweenwhich is arranged the upper member 1, and these side members areprovided with spring-coils 7, and the ends are passed into perforationsin the lug or stud 4. The cross member of this returning-spring 6engages against the under side of the upper member 1 of the check.

Secured to the door is a. locking device for the check. This lockingdevice consists of a rack 8, the lower sides 9 of the teeth beinginclined upward and inward, so that the member 1 cannot readily oraccidentally slip out from engagement therewith. The upper edges of theteeth are inclined downward. as indicated at 10, so that byfoot-pressure on the outer end of the upper member the check may bereadily forced downward, the said upper member 1 being provided with aring 11 at its end, which forms a foot-plate. The lower member 2 has aportion extended into an opening 12, formed in a sliding part 13, theupper and lower walls of which are divergent from the center outward inboth directions, so as to permit a free sliding movement between theparts. On the lower end of the part 13 is an enlarged block 1 1,slidable in a boxing 15, secured to the door and open at the bottom. Atthe top the boxing has an inwardlyturned flange 16 for engaging with theupper end of the blocks and preventing it moving too far upward. Seatedin the lower end block is a rubber cushion 17, having an H- shapedsurface 18 for engaging a floor or carpet. It will be noted that as theend members of the spring 6 pass into the stud 4 at opposite sides ofthe coil 3 the said coil cannot slip otfthe stud.

In the operation when it is desired to hold the door at any openingfoot-pressure on the ring 11 will force the two members 1 .Zdownward, sothat the cushion will engage against the floor or carpet. The pressureon the floor or carpet will be regulated by the degree of downwardmovement of the upper member1 that is, depending upon which one of therackhooks is engaged thereby. Therefore it is evident that the pressuremay be regulated to hold the door firmly open or to permit it togradually close. To release the device from engagement with the floor orcarpet, the member 1 is to be moved slightly downward by foot-pressureto disengage it from a hook of the rack. Then upon releasing thepressure the spring 6 will return the parts to upper or normal position.

While Ihave described the device as a doorcheck, it is obvious that whenthe door is closed the device may be forced tightly into engagement witha door-sill or the like, and thus form an auxiliary lock.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. A door check comprising upper and lower connectedmembers. a stud on which the two members are mounted to turn, a partoperated by the lower member for engaging with a floor, and a lockingdevice for engaging with the upper member.

2. A door check comprising upper and lower connected members, a stud onwhich the two members are mounted to turn, a spring on the stud engagingwith one of the members for moving the parts to normal position, thesaid lower member having connection with a device for engaging with afloor or the like, and a rack for engaging with the upper member.

3. A door-check comprising a single length of spring-wire bent to formupper and lower members having a coil connection, a stud for engaging insaid coil connection, a sliding device with which the lower memberconnects, an enlarged block at the lower end of the sliding device, aboxing in which said block is movable, and a locking device.

4. A door-check comprising a single length member, a rack with which theupper member is designed to engage, and a foot-plate at the end of saidupper member.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES MOGINNIS.

Witnesses:

H. B. STEVENS, CHAs. B. STEVENS.

